Adjustable wagon handle



Feb. 5, 1946. JgR. MccRAY ADJUSTABLE WAGON HANDLE Fileanw. 27. 1944 I ATTD RN EYS Patented Feb. 5, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ADJUSTABLE WAGON HANDLE Joseph `Rudolph McCray, South Bend, Ind. Application November 27, 1944, Serial No. 565,345

1 Claim.

The invention relates to adjustable handles, and more especially to adjustable play Wagon handles.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a handle of this character, wherein a play wagon having a guide and draft tongue equipped therewith, enables grown people to use such wagon for any required purposes, in that the said handle can be adjusted for the lengthemng or shortening of the tongue, suiting it for service to the grown person or for use by a child, the handle when adjusted for extending the tongue and thereby adapting it for service by the grown person, will be unsuited for use by the child, thus the said handle through another adjustment can shorten the tongue, adapting it for the said child9 either in the draft of the wagon or for coasting purposes.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a handle of this character, wherein the same is telescopically tted to the tongue of the wagon for the lengthening or shortening of such tongue, in a novel and unique manner, thereby adapting the wagon for use by grown-ups or for children.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a handle of this character, wherein the adjustable fastening thereof assures safety, and permits adjustment to be had with ease and dispatch.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a handle of this character, which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efiicient in its purpose, strong, durable, readily and easily adjusted with dispatch, neat in appearance, and inexpensive to manufacture and install.

With these and other objects in View, theinvention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts asvwill be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows the preferred embodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a side view of a wagon showing the handle constructed in accordance with the invention applied to the tongue of such vehicle.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the handle and tongue, the handle being in one adjusted position.

Figure 3 is a side view partly broken away of the structure shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary side View of the tongue.

Figure 6 is a View similar to Figure 5 looking toward the top of the tongue.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several viewsin the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates a wheeled play wagon, which is of any ordinary well known construction, having joined with the front steering axle I0 a forwardly extending tongue bracket or iixture II, in which is tted a vertically swinging tongue I2, the inner curved end portion of the latter being pivoted at I3 to the bracket or xture, as is usual.

Adapted to be tted in the outer end portion of the tongue I2, which is of tubular formation, is the handle denoted generally at B, constructed in accordance with the invention, and comprises a shank or stem I4 of any desired length as may be selected, and is of a cross-sectional size to telescopically t and slide in the outer end portion of the tongue I2 for the lengthening or shortening thereof.

The stem or shank I4 at its outer end carries a loop-like handgrip I5, which is permanently xed thereto in any suitable manner. The shank I4 is formed with opposed elongated slots I6 extending in a direction transversely of the stem, and the tongue I2 is formed with spaced apart opposed openings I9 preferably one opposed pair of openings I9 being located close to the outer extremity of the outer end portion of such tongue, while the other opposed pair of openings I 9 is located inwardly remote from the inner end thereof and the pair of slots I6 is located inwardly of that end of the shank or stem I 4 that is opposite the end to which the handle I5 is attached.

Engageable over the shank or stem I4 is a detachable split inherently resilient or springy locking collar, ring or the like II, having centrally of its closed side a latching pin or tine I8, which is insertable in spaced holes or openings I9 and susceptible of registry with the opposed slots I6, and in this manner the said stem or shank I4 is adjustably latched to the tongue I2, and also is capable of slight turning movements, limited by the elongated formations of the said slots I6, which receive the pin or tine I8. Thus it can be seen that the tongue I2 in association therewith of the handle B under adjustment of The combination of a Wagon tongue having an outer tulrnilar.- portion, ar sterxru adjustablyf tele- 10 scoped in the tubular portion, a. handle, afi one end of the stem opposed elongated slots extending ina direction transversely of the stem and located inwardly of the other end of the stem, opposed openings located near the outer end of the tongue, opposed openings located inwardly of the tongue remote from the aforesaid opposed openings and a split springy ring member having a latching pin thereon adapted to register with said slots and either of said located opposed openings to adjustably latch the stem in several to permitslightturning movements ot said stem within sacl tongue..

JOSEPH RUDOLPH MCCRAY. 

